Please be aware that people are receiving fake 2nd chance offers and invoices based on SixBid bidding. I've seen one of these myself from a...
I'm hanging out drinking some wine and grooving on my latest prawn denarius and thought I'd share some of my cooler anonymous symbol denarii....
This is one of my treasures that I bought in NY at the NYINC show earlier this month. [ATTACH] Photo from NAC 83, May 20, 2015 The Social...
I ran across this write up on a coin that is up for auction from the Andrew McCabe collection at CNG right now. I had no idea that Sekhmet was a...
Ever wonder how ancient coins are found? Well there is actually a science behind it. A fascinating series of articles on the different type of...
I recently acquired a very interesting denarius of Julius Caesar which exhibits a curious phenomenon that was written about by Bernhard Woytek in...
I recently acquired this rather scarce and interesting coin which came with some great old collector tags. The sale had a forward about the...
I'm currently traveling around Scandanavia with poor internet access but wanted to share some amazing pics of a bust of Pompey Magnus (The Great)...
This is believed to be the first portrait issue of Julius Caesar, likely issued in early January 44 BC just a couple months before his...
I'm normally a silver guy but I'm sort of getting interested in aes grave after getting a chance to handle a bunch that a friend of mine has. I...
I just received a coin today that is quite interesting. I hadn't researched the symbolism of it until now. Check out the portrait closely....
I was in London this week and the British Museum just put up an interesting mini exhibit at the entrance of the Coins and Medals department on...
In honor of Mr. Dorney's thread on vacation regrets, I'm starting one to showcase regrets that have been righted, coins that have been reunited,...
According to the Dictionary of Roman Coins by Stevenson, the Caduceus, or Caducei when plural, is a wand or rod, entwined at one end by two...
Has anyone been to Coinex in London? Is there a decent showing of ancient dealers? I'm expecting Baldwins and other British dealers, but are...
There's been a lot of discussion recently on this forum about forgeries so I wanted to bring to your attention a series of great articles on on...
Going through my recent purchases and weaving them into my collection in correct order (Crawford first, Sear RIC second, and Sydenham third when...
The Swiss Coin Fairy left something under my pillow (really in my mailbox) that is one of the lots I won in NAC in May. It's an early denarius...
The Gaulish/Celtic war trumpet was a wind instrument used in battle and perhaps special festivals by the Iron Age Celts. We can find them on many...
The first time I ever looked through the Cahn Hess Haeberlin Collection catalogue from 1933, I noticed this exact coin and fell in love with it....
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